HAPPY 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND!!!

Here are a few of my patriotic decorations around my house...

GOD BLESS OUR MILITARY MEN & WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES...
GOD BLESS AMERICA...
GOD BLESS US ALL!

What's new is what's old...

I love antiques! I love antique furniture but what I love more is antique dishes! I have a few pieces that belonged to my mom that are safely packed away. I really want to display them somewhere but if something ever happened to them I would be sooooo upset! So I have been going to antique stores and shopping on eBay for dishes that I don't have and emotional attachment to.
Here are a few pieces I just recently purchased...

I just got this little Fenton vase. I would love to get a few more in this size. I think they would be great to dress up a table for a dinner party. A floral arrangement for each place setting!

This is my first piece of Hull Pottery. I love the mutted colors on this piece. Can't wait to get more!

I have a little collection of handpainted blackberry dishes. Blackberries are one of those things that remind me of my childhood. As a family we would go blackberry picking. I didn't much like the long pants and long sleeves we had to wear in warm weather. I really didn't like the thorns! And I REALLY didn't like the idea of maybe seeing a snake...but I loved those blackberries!!!

These are my two handpainted daisy plates.I just started collecting these for my kitchen. Daisies are another reminder of my childhood. My grandmother always had daisies in her yard!

I love spending time in antique stores looking around at all the items that once belonged to someones grandmother or even great grandmother. I especially love going shopping with my sister. She loves antiques as much as I do but collects different things. We live in different towns and sometimes we shop for each other. Which is just an excuse for me to spend more time looking in all those antique stores...I am shopping for two!

What's stitching in my sewing room (or should I say seauxing room!)

I love, love, love to do machine embroidery on my sewing/embroidery machine! Most days you will find me stitching away in my sewing room. I recently purchased some beautiful oatmeal colored, linen blend, hemstitched towels and I love stitching on them.

Here are a few of the designs I've been working on...

These are raspberries but I think they can pass for blackberries too! I think I'm going to stitch this design in a raspberry color and a purple color and give them as a gift to a friend.

I am thinking of making a matching towel with two smaller butterflies...another gift for another friend?!

This design was originally just one bee but I thought it was to small for the towel so I duplicated it, shrunk it and flipped it in the opposite direction. I like this better.

Here are the finished towels...

...and here are a few more towels I've been stitching...

Did I mention that I love these towels!
 Well that's what is stitching in my sewing (seauxing) room!
Thanks for visiting!

What's growing in my yard...

Well here we are...the longest day of the year! And we finally had a rain storm!! We really needed some rain and today we got it. My flowers were pelted with raindrops today but when the sun comes out tomorrow they will be brighter than ever. So here is what is growing in my yard...